By Steven Kivinski and John Harris III and Steven Kivinski and John Harris III,Contributing Writers | November 30, 1992

The Gambrills-Odenton Recreation Council Wildcat overwhelmed Davidsonville, 30-7, in the nightcap of the Anne Arundel Youth Football Association championships Saturday at Anne Arundel Community College.The 140-pound county champions finished 11-0."We made it a little tough on ourselves in the first quarter," said coach Mike Vladich.GORC fell behind in the first quarter when Davidsonville quarterback Scott Fulton hit Josh White with a 30-yard touchdown pass.Fulton's one-point conversion pass to Brian Kilpatrick gave the Gators a 7-0 lead with 6:52 remaining in the first quarter.

By Katherine Dunn and Katherine Dunn,katherine.dunn@baltsun.com | May 24, 2009

One thing is for sure when No. 1 Northwestern meets fifth-ranked North Carolina on Sunday evening for the NCAA Division I women's lacrosse championship - there won't be any snow. When the two teams met in Chapel Hill in March, their first attempt to play was rained out. Their second went on despite a couple of inches of snow overnight, temperatures in the 30s and wind - weather more akin to the Wildcats' home on the shore of Lake Michigan. The Wildcats apparently didn't mind; they won, 12-7.

As cold as the cutting wind was in Edgewater yesterday, the Arundel Wildcats were as hot.No. 2 Arundel (7-1) warmed their cold hands with sizzling bats in pounding out 16 singles and scoring four runs in each of the first three innings on the way to a 15-3 romp over No. 8 South River (also 7-1).The visiting Wildcats got three hits each from first baseman Valerie McDowell, right fielder Maria Drury and designated hitter Emily Walther. Catcher Breanna Kitchen and shortstop Kristin Daffin had two hits each.

A tenacious 22-4 run over the final two minutes of the second period and through the third period propelled No. 5 Seton Keough over top-ranked Arundel, 51-34, in Gambrills last night.It was Arundel's first loss at home in two years, the last defeat in the region semifinals to eventual region champion Annapolis in the Wildcats' final game of the 1993-94 season. The Wildcats have only lost three games overall the past two seasons.The visiting Gators got seven points or more and at least five boards from four starters and played a solid collapsing defense in routing the defending Class 4A state champions.

Somewhere, The Baron must be smiling.Adolph Rupp, the legendary coach, would be proud of the University of Kentucky team that his third successor, Rick Pitino, is preparing for the NCAA's Final Four this weekend.The Wildcats are playing their best basketball of the season and the best of any team remaining in the tournament. They are not just winning, they are destroying opponents.This is a young and hungry team -- guards Dale Brown and Junior Braddy are the only significant seniors -- that is on a mission after last season's 104-103, overtime defeat to Duke and Christian Laettner's miracle jumper in the East Regional final that was arguably the best college game ever played.

MINNEAPOLIS - They snipped slowly and carefully, until each strand of nylon had been cut away from the rim. Kentucky forward Antoine Walker then pointed his teammates to the other end of the floor, where the procedure began anew until both baskets were bare.It took longer for the top-seeded Wildcats to dismember the nets at the Metrodome or, as one of their many fans called it, "My Old Kentucky Dome" than it did to dismantle second-seeded Wake Forest during a frighteningly routine 83-63 victory in yesterday's NCAA Midwest Regional final.

STANFORD, Calif. -- Mike Bibby had heard all the talk about how Stanford was going to do the same thing to Arizona on Thursday night it had done two weeks ago to UCLA.And Bibby heard all the chants from Stanford's rowdy student body from the stands at Maples Pavilion in pre-game warm-ups and for the first 25 minutes of the game.About being overrated.About hating his estranged father, Henry, the coach at USC."They were trying to get into our heads," Bibby said after the game. "They were trying to see what would happen, how far they could go. I thought, 'It'll come back to them.

PHILADELPHIA -- Unrealistic expectations about its beloved basketball team grow like the bluegrass along the rolling hills of Kentucky. They are passed from one generation of fans to another like some family heirloom.But when the Wildcats were placed on NCAA probation three years ago and put out of postseason competition until this year, the expectations became a little more reasonable, the goals a little more realistic."I think most of the fans -- not all them -- just wanted us to get back in the NCAA tournament," Kentucky coach Rick Pitino said earlier this week.

While Annapolis and Broadneck have been getting most of the headlines lately in county boys basketball, the Arundel Wildcats have been coming on strong. Arundel has reeled off five wins in a row to run its overall record to 9-7 under second-year coach Tim Poole. Its latest win was by 68-56 over South River (5-11) Thursday to lift the Wildcats' Anne Arundel County League record to 7-3. Senior leader Paul Bucknor, a 6-foot-4, 215-pound forward who averages 11 points and 10.5 rebounds per game, says the Wildcats, 6-17 last season, are coming together.